Life Science

The human heart is an organ that pumps blood throughout the body via the circulatory system.

Teen birth rates have dropped by nearly half; experts attribute to a number of factors

How well people can filter out motion in a simple visual test predicts IQ almost as well as the constituent parts of the test.

Holography is a photographic technique that records the light scattered from an object, and then presents it in a way that appears three-dimensional.

Nearly 23 years after the Americans With Disabilities Act went into effect, patients with disabilities continue to receive inadequate medical care — and many cannot even get a doctor’s appointment.

Denise Sherer Jacobson, 63, was born with cerebral palsy, but she lives a full, active life.

Physicist Marc Millis discusses how close humanity really is to a faster-than-light drive like warp speed on "Star Trek."

Even GPS sites thousands of miles from faults were shifted by big earthquakes.

From its slot-machine rewards to its ability to spur our fight-or-flight response, the Internet's structure makes it easy to use it compulsively.

New findings reveal that the U.S. shoreline -- from Virginia to Florida -- has been uplifted by more than 210 feet, meaning less ice melted than expected. This is big news for scientists who use the coastline to predict future sea-level rise.